Tables
Published on 1. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
98 pages
978-1-935708-74-2 (ISBN)
Description
Tables is Alfred Corn's eighth poetry collection and the third in Press 53's Silver Concho Poetry Series, edited by Pamela Uschuk and William Pitt Root. Carolyn Forché, of The Lambda Book Report, says, "Corn's formal range is everywhere apparent. He even attempts sapphics in English which closely resemble what might be accomplished in the Greek. But as he understands art to be 'always more than technical virtuosity,' his poetry never merely displays his considerable poetic skills, but rather becomes a mode of thought, an inquiry into art and passion, the limits of mastery, mortality, divinity, and the possible destiny of the human soul."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Winston-Salem, NC
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
156 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-935708-74-2 (9781935708742)
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Person
Alfred Corn has published eleven books of poems, two novels, and three collections of critical essays. He has received the Guggenheim fellowship, the NEA, an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and one from the Academy of American Poets. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, the University of Cincinnati, and UCLA. In 2013, he was made a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 2016, Chamán Ediciones in Spain published Rocinante, a selection of his work translated into Spanish, the same translation appearing the following year in Mexico under the title Antonio en el desierto. He has published translations from classical Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Spanish. His own poems have also been translated into Italian, French, German, and Turkish. In October of 2016, Roads Taken, a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Alfred Corn's first book, All Roads at Once, was held at Poets House in New York City, and in 2017 he was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Last year he published a new version Rilke's Duino Elegies. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.